Cassini MIMI Investigation at Fundamental Technologies
Historical MIMI Memos and Notes
Telemetry Modes and Allocations
(S. Jaskulek, MIMI team meeting, October 1994)
CHEMS Deflection Voltage Stepping
16 DVPS (Deflection Voltage Power Supply) steps out of 32 available
1 energy
spectrum per sector (86.25 s for nomimal Pspin)
i.e., 1 step per subsector (5.391 s for nominal Pspin)
CHEMS Science (or Matrix) Rates
34 science
rates (16 bits --> 8 bits log compressed each)
(some of these rates are separately accumulated for each of
the 3 elevation sectors)
transmitted once per DVPS step (5.391 s for nominal Pspin)
:
50.5 bits/s
CHEMS Accumulator Rates
17
accumulators (24 bits --> log compressed each)
transmitted once per DVPS step (5.391 s for nominal Pspin)
:
37.8 bits/s
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Updated 8/8/19, Cameron Crane
QUICK FACTS
Mission Duration: The Cassini-Huygens mission launched on October 15 1997, and ended on September 15 2017.
Destination: Cassini's destination was Saturn and its moons. The destination of the Huygens Probe's was Saturn's moon Titan.
Orbit: Cassini orbited Saturn for 13 years before diving between its rings and colliding with the planet on September 15th, 2017.